NOVELOUS is a books & reference app developed by SHOGAKUKAN INC..
Download Statistics
NOVELOUS has been downloaded 79 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 11 thousand times. It is ranked #1 in books & reference.
User Ratings
NOVELOUS is rated 4.42 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 260 ratings.
App Information
NOVELOUS is FREE to download. The APK download size is 75.82 MB. The latest version available is 1.3.10. The last update was on August 5, 2026.
Technical Requirements
The app has a content rating of High Maturity. The app has been available on Google Play January 2025.
Description
Japanese anime starts here — Shogakukan’s official English light novels. Free to start, plus manga and webtoons!
Recent changes:
Bug fixes and app improvements.
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Great manga and light novel options, and they give you the option to unlock up to 3 chapters a day without using coins (ads instead) so better than most others in that regard. They are also pretty generous with giving you free coins to unlock more chapters for simple things like reading a few chapters of different novels or comics. Overall pretty good.
★★★★★Gabriel Carr· Jul 31, 2026
It's GREAT! I have read FIVE chapters and no add!!! And doing the missions like "Read five chapters" or "Read three chapters" Are great for people who like Manga but don't money to get the coins!, I will continue to use this app!
★☆☆☆☆S A· Mar 2, 2025
Low quality AI translations read unnaturally and are insulting to the original Japanese writers. Do their stories justice and invest in professional human translators! Cannot recommend this at all.
★☆☆☆☆C. T. Nelson· Jan 24, 2025
AI TRASH Don't offer this app your time or money because all it offers are books translated with AI, a Coin based payment system, and stupid speech bubbles. Pay real people to translate your works, and keep AI out of our books!
★☆☆☆☆Nathan Detjen· May 18, 2025
Genuinely a bad app. Spams you with adds and constantly prompts you to buy "coins" Has little to no information about the original author(s) little to no light novel's, all of which are completely and utterly generic in nature. I had extremely high hopes for this app, and it utterly failed any and all of my expectations.
★☆☆☆☆Comic Sans· Nov 10, 2025
Can't rate higher than 1 star right now, because no matter what I do, the app won't open for me, so I can't give it a fair shot. I've tried closing and reopening the app, force stopping it and then reopening it, and even shutting down and rebooting my phone, but the app won't load even after 2–5 minutes of sitting at the first screen. Please fix this ASAP!
★★☆☆☆Podo Draken· Jul 1, 2026
2 stars because it works. Not a good source of quality light novels. Those that I read were poorly written and just chasing popular themes of web comics. Two free chapters, term used loosely as the chapters contained a dozen to two dozen three line paragraphs, then costly to open up further chapters. Don't expect to find anything well known. Not for me but might work for others.
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